CATEGORIES

Plaza Suite

Yes, she can play deadpan millennial chaos like nobody else. But Aubrey Plaza has shown all kinds of range on the road from Parks and Recreation to The White Lotus. Now she's in league with both Marvel and Francis Ford Coppola

An Idol Mind

As The Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye leveraged an auteur-scale vision to become an unlikely megastar. With a seamy Hollywood fantasia of an HBO series on the way, he's realizing his grandest ambition

Rags and Riches

Television's über-wealthy communicate their status through looks both flashy and deceptively casual

The Hangover

Billions in losses. Sweeping layoffs and restructuring. A writers strike. Now that the streaming bubble has burst, the TV industry has woken up with an excruciating headache

LOST ILLUSIONS

IT WAS A GRIPPING, GROUNDBREAKING LOST DEVOLVED INTO SUCH SMASH, BUT LOST DEVOLVED INTO SUCH A TOXIC PRODUCTION THAT EVEN CO-SHOWRUNNER DAMON LINDELOF NOW SAYS OF HIS LEADERSHIP: \"I FAILED.\" IN A POWERFUL EXCERPT FROM HER NEW BOOK, MAUREEN RYAN OPENS THE HATCH

MACHINE DREAMS

The creator of the beloved cult hit Dickinson on how she learned to stop worrying and love AI

OBJECT LESSONS

A tribute to the inanimate key players in four major Emmy contenders

BATTLE HYMN

Long before Ron DeSantis made the regulation of college curricula a stump-speech talking point, WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. launched a conservative crusade to transform universities into bastions of right-wing ideology

Such a Fun Age

INSIDE THE PLAN TO CONVINCE VOTERS THAT JOE BIDEN CAN HANDLE FOUR MORE YEARS

GREENROOM With a View

I come from a family of TV talking heads. Who am I to break with tradition?

Bloody HELL!

Succession is actually a farce, not a drama-and just one example of how the British comedy invasion is being televised

Face FORWARD

The most sought-after facialists deploy a mix of high-tech wizardry and lo-fi creature comforts for their captive audiences

All The Angles

On the King’s coronation, Erin Vanderhoof examines how the royal family’s power struggles are playing out in the press and on social media—and whether Charles can revolutionize his family’s PR strategy for a new era

Paradise Lost

Once a Pacific Eden, Fiji has become a destination for a highly combustible mix of surf bums, mega-yacht owners, deep-pocketed international developers, and at least one scientist who thinks he can engineer the perfect wave

Heal Thyself

When Stephanie Tisone met Anthony William, the cult-famous, self-billed clairvoyant known as the Medical Medium, she felt an instant connection. Her belief in his abilities was unwavering. Her life would never be the same

The King's Dominion

His sons are at war. He's divorced his fourth wife and broken an engagement to a would-be fifth. The jewel in what's left of his crown faces a billion-dollar lawsuit. Will the division Rupert Murdoch spent his life fostering undo his empire?

Objects of Envy

With these striking additions to its travel-inspired home furnishings line, Louis Vuitton takes interior design to luxurious—and literal—new heights

Royal FLUSH

This season’s fizzy period TV loves a well-rouged cheek. Consider blush a shortcut to a new kind of frivolity

PLAYING FOR KEEPS

When she came under fire for supporting Kanye West through his antisemitic tirades, CANDACE OWENS didn’t mind. Triggering people is her business, and business is good. EMILY JANE FOX talks to the conservative firebrand about political theater versus deeply held belief

MOUSETRAP

In 2013, Jonah Peretti blew up a nearly half-billion-dollar Disney-BuzzFeed deal—then rode the digital media wave until it crashed

It's a Barbie World

In the age of TikTok and Instagram, the original lifestyle influencer fulfills her true calling

Curtain Call

Catching up with the season's brightest test stars as Broadway roars back to life

Writer's Block

Journalists see artificial intelligence bots like ChatGPT as a potential threat and an opportunity

Alton Mason – Walks the Walk

As a student of the catwalk, Alton Mason looked to Naomi Campbell.

CHAT PERSON

Muckraker of the moment KARA SWISHER has seemingly every power player in Hollywood, media, and tech on speed dial. Now, as she tangles with Elon Musk and churns out podcasts, the ultimate insider is running her own show

Wild at Heart

After the split that rocked the world, supermodel Gisele Bündchen is super-ready for what comes next-and she's got some big ideas for what that will be

ECHOES IN THE DARK

After the shocking murder of four Idaho college kids last fall, a media frenzy exploded into their quiet town, boosting the image of upstart news reporters but bringing along a new breed of web sleut conspiracy-minded, vindictive, and often dead wrong

Electric BOOGALOO

A market is springing up for tricked-out conversions of vintage vehicles as the motor industry shifts gears

New York DOLL

A chameleonic presence on the runway and stage and in this summer's Barbie-HARI NEF embodies a subversive glamour that is wholly her own

Free Agents

With the old guard holding on to power, younger talent reps are shaking up the industry by walking out